ES File Explorer hits v3 with new UI, features

One of the most popular file managers on Android steps up its design chops

File managers on Android usually fall into one of two camps -- they're either well-designed and less than functional, or packed full of features and left back in the Gingerbread design days. ES File Explorer is hoping to span the gap between the two with today's update to v3. The new interface makes better use of a bottom action bar to hold common items like creating new items, searching and refreshing. The entire UI itself went to a cleaner and more visually appealing grey, blue and white scheme.

The update also brings many back-end features, including multiple window support, Wifi file transfers, gestures for navigating and many new tools. The UI and features together make this feel like a great new update to an app that really needed it. You can grab a download of the new version from the Play Store link above.

I've used both and I like both but ES Explorer makes it so easy to listen to music files from a LAN share. Simply select a shared file or folder and select "Play". If you select a folder, all files in the shared folder will be added to the playlist of the music player. Can't do this with Solid Explorer even if you save all of the files to the phone. Even if you manually select all of the files in the folder (local or shared), Solid Explorer only adds one file to the playlist.

"...looks much nicer than this application" is open to interpretation. After getting used to the new ES Explorer interface, I like it better than Solid Explorer's. Just my personal preference, though.

Can you tell me what Solid Explorer can do that ES Explorer cannot? I'm not being sarcastic or facetious. I just could not find anything.

Sure, i am no native english speaking or writing one - as you already realised.
And i do not expect an 80% correct german translation. But the current one is bad, really bad. I can not imagine why, specially as the previous one was great!

I like and still using ES file explorer since few years ago. I am trying out Solid Explorer as per recommended. :) I chosen ES over Astro a few years ago because of the appearance and ad-free feature as a free app. Further, the features/functions in ES are suffice for me. Until today, ES is still ad-free. Loving the new UI too. But really it cannot be compared to a paid app because it's a quality free app. :D